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WATCH: WJZ Takes Off With The World Famous GEICO Skytypers

MIDDLE RIVER, Md. (WJZ) — The world famous GEICO Skytypers took WJZ’s Tracey Leong up in the air on Thursday, as they prepare for this weekend’s Baltimore Air Show.

It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fly in a World War II-era plane that was used to train fighter pilots.

“These are the aircraft that taught the greatest generation to fly,” said Steve Kapur, pilot.

The 75-year-old warbirds now migrate across the country, performing in air shows.

“Occasionally, we meet veterans who actually trained in these aircraft, and we swap lives with them about our experiences, and they tell us about some of the crazy things they did with them,” said Kapur.

And like their name says, they type messages in the sky.

“Those messages could be 1,500 feet tall, and they could be as long as six to eight miles,” said Kapur.

Tracey Leong joined WJZ Eyewitness News in July 2014 as a general assignment reporter.
Her journalism career began in Southern California, where she was born and raised. She worked as an intern at KABC and an editorial assistant at KNBC in Los...